RE: Insomnia Sucks! | What Have You Done To Fight It?

Insomnia does suck. Thankfully, it's a rare enough issue for me that I haven't done anything to treat it. On the occasions where I just can't go to sleep — usually because of racing thoughts about something meaningless — I tend to not fight it; instead I just get up and go DO something; usually write a long rambling journal entry. Then I take a nap the next afternoon. Which works fine, of course, because I'm self-employed and set my own working hours.

I've had a couple of prolonged periods of insomnia, and the most effective thing was to change my sleep schedule. I went to "two sleeps" a day, which was actually common with farmers back in the 1800's and early 1900's.